L' enigma di Finkler

According to the reviews on the back cover, The Finkler Question is hilarious. The front cover proclaims that it won the 2010 Man Booker Prize. A reviewer from the London Times asks "How is it possible to read Howard Jacobson and not lose oneself in admiration for the music of his language, the powe Leggi tutto

I don't like the idea that literature is written "for" or "not for" any people. Sure, you might be able to appreciate War and Peace better if you are a member of the 19th century Russian intelligentsia. But you're a fool if you let a smaller share of comparative appreciation get in your way. I mean, Leggi tutto

I kept wanting to quit this unlikeable cramped book, but I didn't, because I kept waiting to see what the Booker Prize committee saw in it. I never did. I'm not sure if this book's unpleasantness says anything valid about British society or British Jewry, but I tend to think the solipsistic paranoia Leggi tutto

I had no clue what I was signing up for when I began reading this. The author began by making a very big deal about the pain of being a Jew in the modern world and ended the book with an impassioned plea to see Jews for what they really are, half right and half wronged, like the rest of us. I apprec Leggi tutto

Trei bărbați - doi evrei și un englez (julian Treslove) care și-ar fi dorit să fie și el evreu, dar n-a avut acest noroc - discută, firește, despre ce înseamnă a fi evreu. Discuția este numită de autor „chestiunea Finkler”. Chestiunea nu are un răspuns evident. Aș observa, în treacăt, că mult agitatu Leggi tutto

The Holocaust had become negotiable. She had recently run into her ex-husband and had listened to him spin a hellish tale about his sleeping with a Holocaust denier and negotiating numbers in return for favours. He’d come down a million if she’d do this to him, but would want to put a million bac Leggi tutto